Pedophiliac Phobia, Mixed With Homophobia
As RTE Online, an Irish new service, reported: The pop star Michael Jackson is to...
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'Pederast' In Online Merriam-Webster's...
There was a controversy involving the Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus at www.m-w...
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Merriam-Webster Boners - #1: "Hispanic...
A few years ago, i wrote to Merriam-Webster about their definition of "Hispanic"...
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English County
Some years ago I was asked, by someone over the Internet trying to find out my location...
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Largest English Speaking Nation.
The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English...
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Usage Of Article For "Hospital"
This was from a London website: CHAOS AT IKEA OPENING Five people are in hospital...
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Pronunciation Of 'Forte' (Italian-Derived...
The various pronunciations of "forte" have been discussed before in these newsgroups...
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A Puzzling Apostrophe.
The word "wanna" is one of those nonstandard terms (like "ain't") which has a standard...
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More Confusion Re Bre "Fee Earner"
We recently discussed the peculiar BrEism "fee earner", which seems to be restricted...
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Raise Vs Rear?
Hi, This is from a selective cloze exercise, which aims to test semantic precision...
You Learn Something New Every Day
In an article in Wednesday's *St. Paul Pioneer Press,* "Pilots fired for S.D. landing...
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The Nonsense League Table
Who speaks the most gibberish, the worst jargon, the most twisted English and the...
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Hollywood Executives Call For End To Residual...
Hollywood Executives Call for End to Residual Payments By MICHAEL CIEPLY Published...
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What Do You Call This Kind Of Teacher...
I have another question for you. This is something I've been wondering about for...
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Online Dictionary With Word Pronounciation...
I'm looking for online dictionaries with word pronunciations other than www.m-w.com...
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Top Ten Irritating Phrases
A top 10 of irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University...
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L.L.Bean
An author submitted a text that mentioned L.L. Bean (an outdoors-themed clothing...
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My Scholarship Essay , Revise Please ...
Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, son of Egypt's President Hosni...
2008 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition...
The 2008 screenplay competition winners were announced this weekend at Austin, and...
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Pronunciation Of 'Gibbous'
A question has arisen on a UK newsgroup (non-linguistic) about the pronunciation...
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